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| Coniston United Mine, Skelwith | ||
| Coniston United Mine | ||
| civil parish:- | Skelwith (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY354019 | |
| coordinates:- | NY347021 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3501 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3402 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
| references:- | Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
ISBN 0 85206 931 6 |
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| evidence:- | perhaps descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) item:- geology |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto sourcePage 160:- "... some yellow copper ore in Skelwith." |
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Near Pull Beck, south of Skelwith Bridge; trials, little mineralisation, being worked
about 1853. |
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| Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
ISBN 0 85206 931 6 |
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